‘Close Personal Friends’ at Amazon Mgm Adds Six to Cast
Exclusive: Amazon MGM Studios Has Added Six to the Cast of Its New Comedy, Close Personal Friends. They are anna concla (Pen15), Melissa Villaseñor (Saturday Night Live), Natasia Demetriou (What we will in the shadows), Jack Shalloo (Harlan Coben’s Stay Close), Patti Harrison (Poker face), and Dustin Demri-Burns (The Magic Faraway Tree).
Reuniting Jason Orley, Isaac Aptaker, and Elizabeth Berger with Amazon Mgm Studios Following their Work on It Its 2022 Rom-Com I Want You BackStarring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate, The Film’s full of KEPT UNDER WRAPS, AS ARE CHARACTER DETAILS. AS Previously Announched, Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Jack Quaid, and Henry Golding Are Set to Lead the Cast.
Orley is directing from a script by aptacter, bassed on a story the two wrote together. APTAKER AND BERGER ARE PRODUCING FOR THE WALK-UP Company, Alongside Maximum Efffort’s Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau, with Orley Exec Producing.
An emmy nominee best know for co-creating and co-starring in hulu’s Pen15Konkle’s Other Upcoming Films Include Joe Swanberg and Jake Johnson’s UNT. Alaska Feature, on Which We Had the Scoop, and Josh Transk’s Semes. She is repped by ophe partners and uta.
BREAKING BARRIERS AS THE FIRST-WERE LATINA CAST MEMBER OF Saturday Night LiveVillaseñor Can Also Be Seen in Jerry Seinfeld’s COMEDIANS IN CARS Getting CoffeeHBO’s Barry and Crashing, AWKWAFINA IS NORA From Queens From Comedy Central, and More. She is repped by Wme, Compound Management, and Garrett Legal.
A BAFTA NOMINEE BEST KNOWN FOR HER Lead Role of Nadja in Fx’s What we will in the shadows, Demetriou Also Starred In Stath Lets Flats For Channel 4 and Teamed with Comedy Partner Ellie White to Create and Headline the BBC Sketch Series Ellie & Natasia. She is repped by United Agents and Ocean Avenue.
Shalloo Can Be Seen in Harlan Coben’s Stay Close for Netflix, ITV’s The tower and BelgraviaSteve McQueen’s Blitzand Sam Mendes’ 1917. Soon to be seen in chloé zhao’s focus features awards concent Hamnethe is repped by the artists partnership.
Harrison was Most Recently in Season 2 of Peacock’s Poker face and has also been seen on shows like Shrill, I think you should leave with my robinson, High Maintenanceand Search Party. Select Feature Credits Include Theater Camp, The Lost Cityand Together Togetherfor which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. She is repped by uta, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Next Set to Appear in the Feature Adaptation of Children’s Book Series The Magic Faraway TreeDemri-Burns rose to fame as one half of the Bafta-Nominated Sketch and British Comedy Award-Winning Act Cardinal Burns. He’s Also Been Seen in Projects Like All my friends hate with, The spy who dumped with, Slow Horses and Dop Girlsand is represeted by United Agents and Linden Entertainment.